View a Preview ClipThe Organ Video(VHS/DVD). The shepherd who had the idea of joining together various sizes of reed flutes to create one instrument laid the foundation for the largest, most complicated of musical instruments—the organ. This program traces the evolution of the instrument from the shepherd’s "pan pipes" to the mammoth organ requiring two players and a team of seventy assistants to operate—the Winchester organ. We actually see one of these giants being built. Several well-known church organs are studied as miracles of sound and architecture. (28 minutes)
